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Bolnichny gorodok, Murmansk — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Bolnichny gorodok is the hospital quarter of Murmansk's Oktyabrsky okrug, a 1930s microdistrict above the Varnichny stream. Rock closes the east.
About Bolnichny gorodok
Where to stay in Bolnichny gorodok
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
Bolnichny gorodok holds Murmansk's regional hospital, not its hotels. The quarter is housing and wards: apartment blocks along ulitsa Gvardeyskaya, older wooden rows on ulitsa Kuybysheva, and the Murmansk Regional Clinical Hospital behind its gates on ulitsa Akademika Pavlova. That hospital serves the whole region.
If you are in Murmansk to see someone on the wards, book a bed in the centre and travel out along prospekt Kirova instead of searching here. The port lies downhill to the west.
Things to do in and around Murmansk
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Museums & Galleries
3- Murmanskiĭ oblastnoĭ kraevedcheskiĭ muzeĭ Heritage
- Murmansk Regional Museum of Art Heritage
- Museum of Polar Olympics
Castles & Historic Sites
5- Monument to the Victims of the Intervention Heritage
- Памятник Кириллу и Мефодию Heritage
- Statue of Lenin in Murmansk Heritage
- Statue of Sergei Kirov in Murmansk Heritage
- Monument of Anatoly Bredov Heritage
Stadiums & Sports
1- Tsentralnyi Profsoyuz Stadion
Landmarks & Notable Places
8- Murmansk railway station Heritage
- Мурманский политехнический лицей Heritage
- Saint Nicholas Orthodox cathedral in Murmansk Heritage
- School № 1, Murmansk Heritage
- Kinoteatr Rodina Heritage
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About Bolnichny gorodok
What are the main landmarks in Bolnichny gorodok?
Bolnichny gorodok grew along ulitsa Akademika Pavlova, which leaves the square at the quarter's main entrance and climbs east onto the plateau. The Murmansk Regional Clinical Hospital, which grew on the ground the quarter is named for, stands behind a long fence off that street. Russian writers name six of the side streets: Chekhov, Gogol, Radishchev, Ryleev, Serafimovich, and Sholokhov.
The television mast on sopka Varnichnaya rises just beyond the houses. Ulitsa Chekhova climbs the rocky slope.
What is the history of Bolnichny gorodok?
Bolnichny gorodok began in the 1930s, when Murmansk moved its medical institutions off the central streets and onto this south-eastern edge. The site sat half a kilometre from the Kola highway, on ground where sopka Varnichnaya broke the wind from the south and a rock plateau closed the east. Wards went up on the site before the Second World War.
The name means hospital town. Housing arrived later: two-storey wooden rows along ulitsa Kuybysheva in the early 1950s, then stone apartment blocks from 1965 along ulitsa Gvardeyskaya.
Where is Bolnichny gorodok?
Bolnichny gorodok was built in the 1930s on what was then Murmansk's south-eastern edge, at the source of the Varnichny stream, with the Varnichnaya hill to its south.
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Updated October 2026